Douglas Roberts

Stocks | BYU | Golf R&D | Real Estate | Basketball | @CH_JesusChrist

[BYU FOOTBALL @BYUfootball]

A matchup made in heaven

[✈︎ @onllycutestuff]

California

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Alexander Zverev is living on needles for the last 25 years...taking Insulin everyday since age 4.

Today at 29, he became a TWO TIME GRAND SLAM CHAMPION.

Huge Inspiration to children with diabetes. He runs a foundation for the same 👏

[ashe @ashebytes]

I used GPT-6 Astra to create a 3D website that pulls apart a Tesla Model X into 334 modeled pieces

we are in a renaissance of learning

[ESPN College Football @ESPNCFB]

Why BYU’s Kalani Sitake is your favorite coach’s favorite coach 🤙 https://t.co/vhDPwGCKWR

[Coach Mak | Know Your Money @WealthCoachMak]

Budapest! 🇭🇺

[Tour Swings Tommy @TourSwingsTommy]

Congrats to Michael Thorbjornsen on his first career PGA Tour win.

But let’s also congratulate the 10-finger grip. It doesn’t win very often.

Thorbjornsen is one of only a few guys on Tour who uses a 10-finger grip.

Plenty of ways to get it done.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Elevation map of USA

[Matthew Zirwas, MD @MattZirwas]

I’m a dermatologist. I’m supposed to say there is no amount of safe sun exposure.

But I won’t, because that’s a lie.

The attached shows how much sun is safe in different cities at different times of year.

What do I mean by ‘safe’?

I mean this: UV causes DNA damage and skin cancer.

But, shockingly, your body repairs that damage. As long as the damage doesn’t outpace repair and start accumulating it shouldn't increase your risk of skin cancer.

Data just came out that tells us how much UV you can get without damage accumulating.

They took the people most susceptible to DNA damage from UV and exposed them to UV, then did skin biopsies to measure the damage, then more skin biopsies to measure the repair, and repeated it daily for 4 days.

At 1.6 ‘Standard Erythemal Dose’ (SED) there was no accumulation of damage.

So, the attached charts show how much sun it takes to get 1 SED in different cities at different times of the year at different times of day.

And there are extra safety margins built in. It assumes a perfectly clear day with zero air pollution and that the sun is hitting your skin perpendicularly. Unless you’re laying flat, most sun is hitting you at an angle, which isn’t nearly as intense.

But a bigger question you might be asking is ‘Why would a dermatologist be telling you to get sun in the first place?’

Because getting sun reduces your risk of death.

Mostly by reducing your risk of heart attacks and strokes. That is very well proven.

But it’s also very likely that sun exposure reduces your risk of autoimmune disease, dementia, cancer and depression. It’s just not as well proven as the protection against heart attacks and strokes.

And before you reply and say ‘just take vitamin D!’, know that it has been ROBUSTLY proven that vitamin D has little (if any) benefit for preventing any of the above. Vitamin D is mostly useful as a marker of if you’re getting enough sun.

What do I do myself and what do I tell my patients?

Get as much unprotected sun exposure as you can without getting a burn.

That’s my GUESS as to what has the best risk/benefit ratio. Dying of skin cancer is actually really rare, especially when compared to the risk of heart attacks, strokes, autoimmune disease, dementia and other cancers.

But I’ll admit it’s not for sure best to get as much sun as possible, since sun does increase the risk of skin cancer and it might be the case the benefits plateau at a low level.

So, if you’re really worried about skin cancer stick to the charts.

The best science I can find says that amount won’t cause skin cancer.

The takeaway?

Sun is good for you, just don’t get a burn.

[Mindset Machine @mindsetmachine]

Everyone has a million problems until they lose their health.

Then they have only one.

Health is the real luxury. Stay grateful.

[Ryan Smith @RyanQualtrics]

“Sometimes we think we earn our worth by being good at life or crossing things off a list. I want you to know that is not true, because your worth isn’t something you earn. Our worth never changes. It was given to you by God and it cannot be increased or diminished by what you accomplish or don’t accomplish by the end of the day.” - Tamara Runia

#SundayThought

[Longevity @longevitymediaa]

Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.

His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.

He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.

"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."

Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.

Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.

— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast

[Milk Road Stocks @MilkRoadStocks]

Peter Lynch noticed something strange about how people spend money.

Before buying a refrigerator, they research it. Before booking a flight, they compare prices. They are careful and deliberate.

Then they hear about a stock on the bus and put $5,000 or $10,000 into it without knowing a single thing about the company.

Lynch's advice is simple: look at the company. Look at the balance sheet. Ask yourself one question before you buy.

What is the reason this stock should be worth more in the future?

"The stock is going up" is not an answer. That is not a reason. That is just a description of what already happened.

People spend more time deciding on a kitchen appliance than they do on an investment ten times the price. The refrigerator gets a spreadsheet. The stock gets a tip from a stranger.

[Fran Fraschilla @franfraschilla]

People criticized @AJ_Dybantsa decision to attend @BYUMBB instead of a blueblood. What did he get out of it?
1. An NBA-experienced head coach who’s coached Booker, KD, etc.
2. NBA player development.
3. NBA strength coach.
4. NBA nutritionist.
5. NBA analytics.
6. Sold out 18,000 seat arena.
7. @Big12Conference comp that will produce up to 15 draft picks Tuesday/Wednesday
8. Played in 4 NBA arenas.
9. NIL bonanza & endorsements.
Any questions?

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Truth Social Posts On X @TrumpTruthOnX]

Congratulations to Commissioner Brian Rolapp, the PGA Tour, and the Governing Bodies, and also, the Great U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Jay Clayton, for a BIG VICTORY where the USGA wanted to roll back the distance of a Golf Ball, for whatever reason, and now they are precluded from doing so, at least for a long number of years. It was a ridiculous idea, that nobody wanted, especially PGA Tour Players, and people that don’t want to go to a Course to be told that their drives will be going 20 yards shorter. What the USGA should do is agree that, far into the future, they will not allow the current ball to go further. In other words, they will keep the ball the same! The game of Golf is “hot as a pistol.” The last thing we should do is tell people that, for no reason whatsoever, you will not be able to hit a ball as far as you used to. Has anyone ever heard of anything so ridiculous? President DONALD J. TRUMP

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[Zach Brandon @MVP_Mindset]

Monty Williams opens up about the weight of being an NBA head coach and how quickly the job can pull you into survival mode.

“I was just working to stay in it…Some of it is survival, some of it is insecurity and if you’re not careful, it just becomes who you are.”

One of the strange things about coaching is that you can accomplish things you've dreamed about for years and still feel like you're barely hanging on.

Being in "survival mode" has a way of making it difficult to appreciate what you've built because you're constantly worried about what comes next.

I'm not saying everyone experiences it this way, but I do think one of the greatest risks for many coaches isn't losing the job.

It's realizing you've spent so much time building your career that you've lost touch with the person building it.

📹: Run Your Race Podcast

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Progressives:

Remember that Elon’s wealth belongs to him

Yes, he has a lot of money

That doesn’t make it yours—or the government’s

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

No, you don't get it.

He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.

To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.

Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".

$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12

If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.

But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

> you’ll never start a rocket company
> you’ll never build your own engines
> you’ll never be able to use off-the-shelf parts
> you’ll never survive three launch failures
> you’ll never reach orbit
> you’ll never win NASA’s trust
> you’ll never launch cargo to the ISS
> you’ll never compete with Boeing
> you’ll never compete with Lockheed
> you’ll never make rockets reusable
> you’ll never land a rocket vertically
> you’ll never land one on a drone ship
> you’ll never reuse a booster
> you’ll never fly the same booster 10 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 20 times
> you’ll never fly the same booster 30 times
> you’ll never recover and reuse the fairing
> you’ll never lower launch costs
> you’ll never launch every month
> you’ll never launch every week
> you’ll never launch multiple times a week
> you’ll never carry astronauts
> you’ll never replace Roscosmos
> you’ll never fly civilians to orbit
> you’ll never manufacture satellites at scale
> you’ll never build the biggest constellation ever
> you’ll never make satellite internet work
> you’ll never make satellite internet fast
> you’ll never make satellite internet affordable
> you’ll never serve rural customers
> you’ll never serve aircraft and ships
> you’ll never build a methane rocket engine
> you’ll never make full-flow staged combustion work
> you’ll never build the most powerful rocket ever
> you’ll never build a rocket bigger than Saturn V
> you’ll never build it out of stainless steel
> you’ll never launch Starship
> you’ll never separate Super Heavy and Starship
> you’ll never relight Raptor in space
> you’ll never bring Super Heavy back
> you’ll never catch a booster with Mechazilla tower arms
> you’ll never launch 85% of mass to orbit worldwide
> you’ll never change the economics of space
> you’ll never force the entire industry to copy you
> you’ll never win
> you’ll never IPO

Congratulations to @elonmusk and the SpaceX team. You did what countless people said was impossible, and you did it time and time again.

Today is your day. You deserve this. May it be a glorious one.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Your entire life will change when you realize that nobody is thinking about you. I often wonder how many extraordinary people waste their entire lives fearing the judgement of people who were never even thinking about them in the first place. Fearing a spotlight that was never even on. Performing for an audience that was never even there. Because the truth is that you aren't afraid of failure. Not really. You're afraid of other people seeing you fail. You're afraid of what other people will think of you if you fail. But nobody is thinking about you. Everybody is too busy thinking about themselves. So, that thing you've always wanted to do? Go do it.